Importance of Organizational Infrastructure

2013 ◽  
pp. 7-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark R. Dixon ◽  
Amy K. Loukus
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Infrastructure

scholarly journals Barriers to implementation of "Academia da saúde program" in Santa Catarina

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 3046
Author(s):  
Francisco Timbó de Paiva Neto ◽  
Giovana Zarpellon Mazo ◽  
Paula Fabrício Sandreschi ◽  
Daniel Rogério Petreça ◽  
Cassiano Ricardo Rech
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Health Statistics ◽  
Santa Catarina ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Organizational Infrastructure ◽  
Barriers To Implementation ◽  
Physical Activity Programs ◽  
Compensation Payments

The Ministry of Health established the Academia da Saúde Program (PAS) with the objective of contributing to the promotion of health, the implementation of policies for the conduct of physical activities, physical activity and leisure and the reduction of healthy lifestyles. The objective of this study was to identify managers of physical activity programs on the barriers to the operation of the PAS poles in Santa Catarina (SC). A cross-sectional study was carried out with 26 managers (61.5% women) of physical activity programs in Santa Catarina. As compensation payments were withdrawn from the base for updating health statistics. Descriptive statistics (mean, standard avoidance, absolute and relative frequency) were made for data analysis. The results triggered a lack of human resources, lack of leadership, lack of materials, facilities, equipment and a lack of standardized instruments to carry out an evaluation of actions. It was concluded that organizational, infrastructure and human resources barriers are present in the day-to-day actions of PAS in SC.

Working Time on Mars

KronoScope ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zara Mirmalek
Keyword(s):  
Natural Phenomenon ◽  
Clock Time ◽  
Effective Work ◽  
Work Support ◽  
Organizational Infrastructure ◽  
Industrial Organizations ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Standard Clock ◽  
Temporal Rhythm ◽  
Post Industrial

AbstractThe constancy of clock time as an effective work support technology has made it almost impossible to imagine a modern organization where time, specifically standard clock time, is not a component of the organizational infrastructure. Demonstrating the degree to which clock time has become embedded within the organizational sphere are the ways in which clock time operates as though it were a natural phenomenon, rather than a human-built technology (Adam, 1990; Anderson, 1964; Bluedorn, 2002; de Grazia, 1964; Zerubavel, 1981). The naturalization of clock time within organizations is evidenced by the reified assumption technology of clock time is fixed and cannot be modified to support contextually based temporal rhythms of work. The opportunity to challenge particular notions about the relationship between time and work is found in the organization of NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers mission (MER). In addition to standard clock time, the MER mission employed an extra-terrestrial version of standard clock time, known as “Mars time,” to track the presence and absence of sunlight on Mars. Drawing on empirical data, I foreground the inadequacies of the time support technologies that led me to question the use of standard clock time as a way of ordering the experience of time on Mars. I argue that the naturalization of clock time within post-industrial organizations contributed to this occasion in which the scientific exploration of Mars was conducted according to an agrarian era temporal rhythm but for which work support was organized around an industrial era time/work relationship.

scholarly journals ADOPTION OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN PAKISTAN: AN INVESTIGATION OF CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-169
Author(s):  
Qamar Ali ◽  
Sami Ullah Bajwa ◽  
Khaliq Ur Rehman
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Critical Success Factors ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Global Networks ◽  
Priority List ◽  
Organizational Infrastructure ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Detailed List

Although, knowledge has been recognized as a key business asset, firms are still in the infancy stages of comprehending the practical implications of knowledge management. Developing countries are widely believed to be falling far behind in competitiveness and socio-economic development, due to their inability to develop capacities to enable themselves to take part in the emerging global networks of knowledge creation. There is a dire need for a more organized and purposeful study, on critical success factors for knowledge management adoption in developing countries like Pakistan. However, no research, so far, has been conducted to empirically investigate a detailed list of CSFs for KM adoption in Pakistan. This paper evaluates and disseminates the findings of a self-administered survey to investigate the critical success factors for the implementation of KM in banking sector of Pakistan. A survey questionnaire having 11 factors, consisting 66 items is adopted in this study, which is statistically tested for its validity as well as reliability. Data are collected from banking officials. The level of importance, as well as the ranking list of the critical success factors for KM adoption is statistically examined. This paper provides a priority list of CSFs—figured out in order of their importance—for KM adoption in the banking sector of Pakistan. Human resource management, motivational aids, and processes and activities are found to be the most important, while measurement and organizational infrastructure are found to be the least important factors, perceived by the bankers.

On Inheritances

2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-40
Author(s):  
Tamara K. Nopper
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
Hate Crime ◽  
Primary Concern ◽  
Crime Data ◽  
Organizational Infrastructure ◽  
Asian American Movement ◽  
Interracial Violence ◽  
Writers Workshop

In this presentation for the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Tamara K. Nopper analyzes the emergent discourses of “anti-Asian violence” and “Black-Asian solidarity” within historical and sociological contexts. She begins with a discussion of the importance of the 1980s and 1990s as formative moments in terms of post-Asian American Movement organizational infrastructure. She then discusses interracial violence, the coeval growth of hate crime data and legislation, and the hashtag #StopAAPIHate. Her primary concern in this discussion is to reveal what work these narrative framings do in service of or in opposition to anti-Blackness and carcerality.

The Efficiency of Corporate Tax Incentives in Developing Countries Based on Foreign Direct Investments

2020 ◽  
pp. 228-258
Author(s):  
Simla Güzel
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Tax Incentives ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Foreign Direct Investments ◽  
Corporate Tax ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Organizational Infrastructure ◽  
Red Tape ◽  
Market Opportunities ◽  
Economic Development Strategies

During the last quarter century, a remarkable global growth was experienced in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), especially the developing countries, considered FDIs as an important factor in overall economic development strategies. The developing countries aim to attract foreign capital to strengthen their local economy, increase market opportunities, and provide better services to the society. For this purpose, these nations implement various types of tax incentives. Although there are several studies on the effectiveness of tax incentives in FDI, the issue has not been tackled with respect to developing countries. The present study scrutinized the effectiveness of corporate tax incentives in developing countries based on FDI. In conclusion, it could be suggested that tax incentives may be effective in increasing FDI; however, in this group of countries with low level of investments and complex laws in taxation and other fields and could not cope with innovations, red tape and poor governance, it is also important to develop the organizational infrastructure for investments.

Collaboration in the Large

2011 ◽  
pp. 115-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane H. Sonnenwald ◽  
Paul Solomon ◽  
Noriko Hara ◽  
Reto Bolliger ◽  
Thomas H. Cox
Keyword(s):  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Visual Aids ◽  
Organizational Infrastructure ◽  
Geographically Dispersed ◽  
Action Research Approach ◽  
Geographically Distributed ◽  
Social Organizational ◽  
Approach Working ◽  
Videoconferencing Technology

This chapter discusses the social, organizational and technical challenges and solutions that emerged when facilitating collaboration through videoconferencing for a large, geographically dispersed research and development (R&D) organization. Collaboration is an integral component of many R&D organizations. Awareness of activities and potential contributions of others is fundamental to initiating and maintaining collaboration, yet this awareness is often difficult to sustain, especially when the organization is geographically dispersed. To address these challenges, we applied an action research approach, working with members of a large, geographically distributed R&D center to implement videoconferencing to facilitate collaboration and large group interaction within the center. We found that social, organizational and technical infrastructures needed to be adapted to compensate for limitations in videoconferencing technology. New social and organizational infrastructure included: explicit facilitation of videoconference meetings; the adaptation of visual aids; and new participant etiquette practices. New technical infrastructure included: upgrades to videoconference equipment; the use of separate networks for broadcasting camera views, presentation slides and audio; and implementation of new technical operations practices to support dynamic interaction among participants at each location. Lessons learned from this case study may help others plan and implement videoconferencing to support interaction and collaboration among large groups.

Nuclear Partition

2018 ◽  
pp. 33-90
Author(s):  
Chaitanya Ravi
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Organizational Infrastructure ◽  
The Social ◽  
Collective Actors ◽  
The Status ◽  
Indian State ◽  
Theory Section ◽  
Fast Breeder Reactors ◽  
Breeder Reactors

The second chapter begins with an explanation of the origins, evolution, and organizational infrastructure of the Indian nuclear programme. Three Science and Technology Studies (STS) case studies deploying the Social Construction of Technology (SCOT) approach are introduced in the theory section and their combined insights are used to organize various individual and collective actors in India based on their initial reactions to the nuclear deal. The chapter then focuses specifically on the debate between two powerful bureaucracies (Department of Atomic Energy [DAE] and Ministry of External Affairs [MEA] within the Indian state over the civilian-military proportions of the separation plan and the status of the fast breeder reactors). The MEA’s generalist vision and the DAE’s narrower departmental vision are observed in the form of two contending separation plans with different civil-military facility balances and rival safeguarded versus unsafeguarded statuses of the fast breeder reactor. The DAE’s tactics to win the debate are elucidated.

The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle: Empirical Evidence From a German Context

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 467-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Schubert ◽  
Silke Boenigk
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Nonprofit Sector ◽  
Government Funding ◽  
Financial Data ◽  
Organizational Infrastructure ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Over Time

The nonprofit starvation cycle describes a phenomenon in which nonprofit organizations continuously underinvest in their organizational infrastructure in response to external expectations for low overhead expenditure. In this study, we draw on nonprofit financial data from 2006 to 2015 to investigate whether the German nonprofit sector is affected by this phenomenon, specifically in the form of falling overhead ratios over time. We find reported overhead ratios to have significantly decreased among organizations without government funding and that the decrease originates from cuts in fundraising expenses—two results that are in contrast to previous findings from the U.S. nonprofit sector. With this study, we contribute to nonprofit literature by engaging in a discussion around the starvation cycle’s generalizability across contexts.

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